The Church of Saints Quirico and Giulitta is located in an isolated place outside the hamlet of Veglio. Originally there was a small medieval church of which the apse (today the side chapel) remains as splendid testimony. The church is considered one of the most beautiful and intact architectures of the area of Como and can be dated to between the XI and the XII century.
The current church was built in the early XVII century after the visit by Como’s Bishop Feliciano Ninguarda and is a big rectangular building covered by a single roof that incorporates the rooms of the sacristy and the large area to the right of the presbytery used by the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary and in turn incorporates the lower part of the medieval bell tower.
The facade has a lunette and is decorated only by shaped pillars and crowned at the top by a pediment with beams where there is a round relief with the written dedication D.O.M. DD Quirico et Jolittae.
The interior is in post-Tridentine form with a single nave covered by a barrel vault resting on a high entablature under which the four entrance arches overlook the not very deep rectangular side chapels.
The stuccos, statues, paintings and frontals of scagliola (canary glass) are the works of artists of Intelvi. Amongst the oldest paintings is the image of the recently restored God the Father placed in the central part of the gable of the high altar. The painting of the Virgin of the Rosary appears in great evidence in the second chapel on the left created in 1642 that was commissioned by Captain Antonio Selva of Veglio.
The first chapel on the right was built in the presbytery of the medieval church and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The small wooden statue of the venerated Madonna with Child (Madonna of the Graces) is preserved in the niche of the imposing Baroque marble altar. To the side of this altar it is possible to access the medieval apse and discover the original XIII and XIV paintings. Scenes of the Passion of Christ are reproduced on the wall, the Wise Men of the Church in the apsidal basin and golden busts of prophets on the main arch.
